CASTE SYSTEM AND RELIGION PROBLEM

 

CASTE SYSTEM AND RELIGION PROBLEM

Religion which will satisfy everyone. The principal difficulty is that many people take the word to mean their one religion, regarding all other forms as non-religion irreligion superstition or anti religion. Indian population under ten religions groups. They are Hindu's, Sikh's, Jain's, Buddhist's, Zoroastrain's, Muslim's, Christian's, Jew's and other Regions (Tribal), and other Religion (Non Tribal). The designation of tribal religion as separate from Hinduism (except where a tribe had been converted to Christianity or Islam) was unsatisfactory.

 A study of the religion of the different castes and tribes will show the presence of

elements from different layers of Hinduism from the Sanskritic to the tribal mixed in different proportions; and it is arbitrary to draw a sharp line between Hinduism and tribal religion. It is difficult separate the religion of castes at the bottom rang of the

hierarchy from the religion of the tribes. 

The former contains many tribal elements just as the latter contains many "Hindu" elements. Thus santals observe several high caste festivals; Bhagwan is the supreme

deity of the Bhnls; the solagas of Mysore worship Ranganatha in the Biligiri hills,• and the Todas and Budagas of the Hilgiris worship Siva in Nanjangud.

Different tribes are sanskritized in different degree, and different sections of the same tribe may not be uniformly so sanskritized. Thus the Khonds of Khondmals are less; Sanskritized than Khand in Puri who resemble an oriya caste in their religious life. 

Religion has played an important part in Indian society from the careless time. It has assumed number forms and nomenclature in relation to different groups of people associated with it India has been a paly religious society. 

Transformations and changes in different religions have occured from time to time vis-avis changes in intellectual climate and social structure. Religion in India has never been state. today it has made inroads into the arenas of polities and economic life.